A well-known Barnstaple butcher is due to appear in court tomorrow charged with causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving.

David Richard Gratton, 44, of Gratton's Butchers, 89 Boutport Street, Barnstaple, is set to appear before North Devon Magistrates Court in Barnstaple on Friday morning.

He is charged with causing the death of Christopher Kilby on September 15, 2016, by driving a Ford Transit van on the junction of Barnstaple High Street and Butchers Row.

David Gratton pictured outside the Barnstaple branch of Gratton's Butchers

Last year the North Devon Journal reported on the incident which was witnessed by many people in Barnstaple High Street.

At around 12.51pm on Thursday, September 15 last year, police were called to the corner of High Street and Butchers Row in Barnstaple where a crash had occurred involving a van and an elderly pedestrian.

The incident resulted in an 80-year-old man being taken to North Devon District Hospital with serious injuries, but he died the following day.

A person at the scene told the Journal they had seen two police cars and an ambulance parked outside the Wimpy restaurant on the high street near Butchers Row, sharing a series of images of the aftermath.

Butchers Row and Cross Street were closed following the incident, from High Street to Boutport Street, but were later reopened.

The Gratton family are well-known butchers in North Devon.

They ran a store on Butchers Row for 60 years until last year when they decided not to renew their lease.

Gratton's Butchers was run by three generations since it opened in Butchers Row in 1954.